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Welcome to 1100 Pennsylvania, a newsletter devoted to President Donald Trump’s Trump International Hotel Washington, D.C. (and his other companies). President Trump, of course, still owns his businesses and can profit from them.

If you like what you see, tell someone—and support this work by paying for a subscription. If you’ve been forwarded this newsletter, subscribe for yourself at zacheverson.substack.com.Questions? Read our FAQ/manifesto.Tips or feedback? Contact me, Zach Everson, securely via email at 1100Pennsylvania@protonmail.com or on Signal at 202.804.2744.

Nigerian presidential candidate holds town hall at U.S. president’s hotel

1100 Pennsylvania previously reported that Atiku Abubakar was staying at the Trump Hotel D.C. What’s new here is that the following day it also was the site of a town-hall meeting for Nigerian diaspora and members of his party, which was live-streamed. (According to remarks Abubakar made at the town hall, Nigerian law does not allow for diaspora to vote.)

Based on photos shared on Abubakar’s verified Twitter account, about 50 people attended, many of whom recorded or photographed it.

During the town hall, which a protestor briefly interrupted, Abubakar discussed the economy, corruption, and his hopes to expand voting rights to the diaspora. He did not mention the event’s location.

In response to an inquiry sent through Picchi’s website, an email signed Staff stated that

The Trump Hotel was chosen for that meeting for purely logistical reasons. Anyway Mr. Picchi didn’t stay at the Hotel. Please consider that the recent journey in America was a private trip: consequently, Mr. Picchi did not spend any government or public funds for it or during it.

And while Picchi’s Twitter account showed him appearing toconduct plenty of Italian government business while in the United States, in a follow-up exchange, Staff further explained that Picchi funded his trip by himself and “wasn’t on a visit ordered or funded by the Italian MoFA [Ministry of Foreign Affairs] nor by other public institutions.”

The Italian embassy has not responded to an email, sent at the same time as the initial message via Picchi’s website, asking if the government paid for Picchi’s trip and how the hotel was chosen for a meeting venue.

Here’s what else Picchi was up to in while in the United States on his privately funded trip:

The Italian embassy in the United States’ verified Twitter account reports Picchi met with his country’s U.S. ambassador and was “in Washington DC to promote #Italy-US relations.”

Women’s March pays a visit

The 2019 Women’s March went past the barricaded Trump Hotel D.C. on Pennsylvania Avenue Saturday, leaving in its social-media wake photos of military-grade equipment, large crowds, middle fingers, and protest-signs–cum-litter.

Individual capacity—On Dec. 14, Trump’s personal attorneys appealed the denial of their motion to dismiss the case, also to the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. On Dec. 19, the AGs replied to Trump’s motion for a stay pending that appeal by voluntarily dismissing the claims against Trump in his “individual capacity to allow the claims against President Trump in his official capacity to move forward expeditiously.” (The AGs only brought suit against Trump in his individual capacity after the judge suggested they do so.) Trump’s personal attorneys, on Dec. 21, opposed the motion to dismiss at the district level, saying the appeals court now has jurisdiction and accusing the AGs of “gamesmanship.”

One thing that has nothing to do with Trump’s businesses (I think, tough to tell sometimes!)

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